Toronto municipal election, 1925
Encyclopedia
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 1, 1925. Thomas Foster was elected mayor ousting incumbent Wesley Hiltz
. The election included a referendum where voters passed a motion in favour of building a new water plant. This eventually became the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant.
Results
returned in this election: D.C. MacGregor and labour leader William D. Robbins
. Defeated was R.H. Cameron
, a close ally of the mayor.
Results
)
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown
and Rosedale
)
Ward 3 (Central Business District
and The Ward)
Ward 4 (Kensington Market
and Garment District)
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale
)
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Ward 8 (East Toronto
)
Results taken from the January 1, 1925 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.
William W. Hiltz
William Wesley Hiltz called 'Bill Hiltz' was Mayor of Toronto in 1924. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, Bill Hiltz, with the same names....
. The election included a referendum where voters passed a motion in favour of building a new water plant. This eventually became the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant.
Toronto mayor
Hilz had been elected to office the year previously. he was challenged for the mayoralty by long serving politician Thomas Foster. Foster won by a narrow margin in what was a very low turnout election. Two fringe candidates with no previous elected office also ran.Results
- Thomas Foster - 32,885
- Wesley HiltzWilliam W. HiltzWilliam Wesley Hiltz called 'Bill Hiltz' was Mayor of Toronto in 1924. During his term, he introduced time clocks for Toronto city workers. He had a son and grandson, Bill Hiltz, with the same names....
- 31,408 - Harry Winberg - 2,263
- Samuel Fieldhouse - 282
Board of Control
There were two new members of the Board of ControlToronto Board of Control
Toronto Board of Control was a part of the municipal government of Toronto, Canada from 1904 until its abolition in 1969 and served as the executive committee of Toronto City Council. It consisted of four councillors elected city wide and was presided over by the mayor. Each voter could vote for up...
returned in this election: D.C. MacGregor and labour leader William D. Robbins
William D. Robbins
William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...
. Defeated was R.H. Cameron
R.H. Cameron
Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....
, a close ally of the mayor.
Results
- Joseph GibbonsJoseph Gibbons (Toronto)Joseph Gibbons was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born on a farm outside of Waterloo, Ontario and moved to Toronto in the 1890s. There he found worked as a streetcar driver. He first piloted the horse drawn streetcars up Yonge Street and then served for fifteen years as a driver...
(incumbent) - 39,299 - A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 34,369
- William D. RobbinsWilliam D. RobbinsWilliam Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also...
- 33,172 - D.C. MacGregor - 30,326
- R.H. CameronR.H. CameronRobert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s....
(incumbent) - 29,086 - James SimpsonJames Simpson (politician)James "Jimmy" Simpson was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left wing politician in Toronto, Ontario...
- 14,573 - Birks - 4,321
City council
Ward 1 (RiverdaleRiverdale, Toronto
Riverdale is a large neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue and Greektown to the north, Jones Avenue, the CN/GO tracks, and Leslieville to the east, and Lake Shore Boulevard to the south....
)
- Robert Luxton (incumbent) - acclaimed
- George J. Smith (incumbent) - acclaimed
- W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - acclaimed
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown
Cabbagetown, Toronto
Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood located on the east side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It comprises "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association....
and Rosedale
Rosedale, Toronto
Rosedale is an affluent neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was formerly the estate of William Botsford Jarvis, and so named by his wife, granddaughter of William Dummer Powell, for the wild roses that grew there in abundance....
)
- Bert WempBert WempBert Sterling Wemp was a Canadian journalist and mayor of Toronto.Born in Tweed, Ontario, he was raised in Cabbagetown and attended Dufferin School and Jarvis Collegiate Institute. In 1905, he joined the Toronto Telegram working as a suburban editor, editor, city editor, and head of the court bureau...
(incumbent) - 4,059 - John Winnett (incumbent) - 3,482
- Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 3,293
- Herbert Henry BallHerbert Henry BallHerbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist.On October 24, 1885, he married Mary Ann Martin in Bristol, Somerset, England. In 1886, Ball and his wife emigrated to Canada, settling north of Toronto in an area then known as Davisville...
- 2,913 - A.E. Brocklesby - 3,301
Ward 3 (Central Business District
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...
and The Ward)
- Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 3,458
- J. George RamsdenJ. George RamsdenJoseph George Ramsden was a long active municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Thornhill and first became active in politics working for Alexander Mackenzie in a York East by-election. He served for fifteen years as Chief Inspector for the Department of Indian Affairs, which saw...
- 2,974 - Joseph Singer - 2,685
- Andrew Carrick (incumbent) - 2,476
- John Boland - 1,887
- John R. Beamish - 1,790
- Charles Mogrdige - 613
Ward 4 (Kensington Market
Kensington Market
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington...
and Garment District)
- Nathan PhillipsNathan Phillips (politician)Nathan Phillips, KC was a Canadian politician and popular Mayor of Toronto, Ontario.-Early life:Born in Brockville, Ontario, the son of Jacob Phillips and Mary Rosenbloom, he was educated in public and high schools in Cornwall. In 1908, he articled with the Cornwall lawyer, Robert Smith, who later...
(incumbent) - 3,282 - Sam McBride (incumbent) - 2,889
- Claude Pearce (incumbent) - 2,827
- Ian Macdonnell - 2,479
- James Muldowney - 516
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
- Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 5,262
- Benjamin Miller (incumbent) - 3,934
- William James StewartWilliam James StewartWilliam James Stewart was a Canadian politician. Stewart also owned and operated the Bates and Dodds Funeral Home on Queen Street West in Toronto.- Mayor of Toronto :...
(incumbent) - 3,703 - Wesley Benson - 2,567
- Sumner Graham - 2,280
- John Macdonald - 1,349
- Arthur E. Fegan - 754
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale
Parkdale, Toronto
Parkdale is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue, on the north by Queen Street. It is bounded on the east by Dufferin Street from Queen Street south, and on the south by Lake Ontario...
)
- Brook Sykes - 8,477
- Samuel Wright (incumbent) - 7,488
- John Laxton (incumbent) - 5,676
- Guy Roach - 4,716
- Richard Tuthill - 2,318
- James Gill - 825
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
- Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 3,646
- Frank Whetter (incumbent) - 3,385
- W.A. Baird - 3,303
- Robert Hall - 398
- James Morrow -375
Ward 8 (East Toronto
East Toronto
East Toronto, Ontario was an incorporated community in what is today a part of the city of Toronto, Canada. It covered much of what is today the Upper Beaches neighbourhood, stretching up to Danforth Avenue in the north. The central street in the community was Main Street, running south from...
)
- Robert Dibble (incumbent) - 5,846
- Robert Baker (incumbent) - 5,427
- William Robertston - 3,993
- Joseph Turner (incumbent) - 3,867
- Florence Custance - 819
Results taken from the January 1, 1925 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.